Damn. I’m. Good.

Jane Seymour in the bottom two.

And Mark Cuban … outta there. Finally.

And after all his blowhard bluster about “If I can’t out-talent ’em I’m gonna outwork ’em” and he’ll do whatever it takes and he’s got to improve the technique and he will, his words to Kym on hearing they were finished? “Thank God it’s over, thank God.”

Dude, I can understand you feeling that way. You were so outclassed from the very beginning that it hasn’t even been funny. But don’t you realize how stupid you make yourself look on top of it all when you let us see you say that after all the manic bullshit? “I wouldn’t have traded it for the world,” he said then on mike.

Don’t let the door hit you.

I’m behind on my editing. I’ve finished the red-pen work on the hard copy, but after that I have to do notes and bibliography electronically, in Word documents. I’ve been working feverishly on the notes, working in the morning and thus taking time away from my son (I usually work after he’s in bed, but I procrastinated), and I got it done today. I’d been using Ctrl-S all along, saving every few pages. I hit Ctrl-S one last time and closed the document. Then I had a cold chill. The document was an attachment from my boss, and I realized I hadn’t saved it as a separate document but was making changes right there in the attachment. Well, no big, Ctrl-S Saves, right? No, unlike Jesus, Ctrl-S does not Save no matter what. There is no copy of the document anywhere that I can find. It did not save in the attachment. When I open the attachment document, it is manifestly the original document with none of my changes on it.

Any of you savvier-than-I tech folks have any idea if the computer is hiding something from me or if all my changes are gone forever? I did Windows’ search function already. No joy.

I am so upset. Five hours’ work down the drain.

Update: Nevermind. I’ve got the green light from the boss to take the extra time to do it over and Daddyman (The Bean’s dad and resident tech around here) says Outlook Express doesn’t keep temp stuff around like Outlook proper sometimes does. Oh well. Next time, Gadget.

Update x2: SAVED! Daddyman manipulated that handy bug known as Norton GoBack and got the document back in its next-to-last iteration–meaning I have only about one page (out of sixty) to do over again.

Whew.